If you want to be successful with blogging you need to work smart not hard.
It took me a while to catch on to this concept.
If you are a newbie blogger you can burn yourself out early on if you don't know this.
When you begin to blog there are a lot of distractions that can take you away from your focus if you allow it.
The first thing you need to do is get a plan of action and stick to it, especially if you want to make money blogging.
Time is money as they say and you can waste a lot of time if you don't have a strategy.
Of course, you will also need to set goals.
Start with short doable ones and build upon those to make progress.
For example, a doable goal would be to write down must do's for the next day every night before you go to bed.
Then in the morning get your list and do the first 3 things and check them off as you do them.
Just keep doing more things on the' to do' list until you can do them all.
It may take a while to accomplish this, but that's okay as long as you're progressing that's what matters.
Some of the big time wasters are: too much time in forums, checking emails every few minutes, tab jumping, and not implementing what you learn.
If you get control over these things you will be more effective with blogging and make more money.
When you lose time by not following a to do list the next thing you know the whole day is gone and nothing is accomplished.
Then you make no money and feel like a failure this is why so many get discouraged and give up trying to make money online.
Don't be a blogging casualty make a list and do it.